M Brand Manager Larry Koch will be the guest speaker at the March NJBMWCCA meeting, which will be held on Wednesday March 17th at JMK BMW in Springfield. Pizza will be served at 6:30, and we'll start the program at 7 or 7:15. Service Manager Carlos Duarte and his staff will be giving tours of the new JMK facility, and the parts department will be open.

Larry will speak about the 2010 season for BMW racing in North America. The ALMS season starts with the 12 hours of Sebring on Saturday March 20th, and BMW is represented by the Rahal Letterman team and their two M3 GT cars.

In Grand-Am, BMW is fresh from its first victory of the year in the Homstead Grand Prix last weekend, where the Riley/Dinan BMW of Target Chip Ganassi Racing won in a tight battle with the Brumos Porsche.